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TIL /remembered about the Balloon Boy Hoax
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TIL deer antlers are “the fastest growing structures in the animal kingdom”
BrVKe
TIL that in Star Trek, Captain Kirk's phrase "You have the conn" has its origins in early battleships dating as far back as the 1860s; these ships were built with conning towers. A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine from which an officer in charge can issue commands.
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TIL The earliest known life-forms on Earth are fossilised micro-organisms, found in hydrothermal vent precipitates (holes in the sea floor). They date to between 3.77 billion and 4.28 billion years ago.
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TIL a German peasant girl claimed she tasted the sweet foreskin of Jesus during communion in the 13th century. Her confessor's notes about it were published 500 years later, confiscated and put on the index of banned books, then re-released in the 20th century.
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TIL of Ricky Ray Rector who, after murdering a man in a nightclub, agreed to turn himself in. Instead, he shot the negotiating officer in the back, killing him. He then attempted suicide but failed, effectively lobotomizing himself. In prison he saved part of his last meal for “after the execution”